Month: December 2010
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2005 brush ornaments
2005 brought a surprise move! Our church was finally able to buy its own building and it came with a parsonage. Unfortunately the parsonage was in dismal condition, but everyone rallied together and we completely renovated the home from the floor up. The girls came home from college at just the right time to be…
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2004 Christmas ornaments
Our empty nest began this year. DD#2 won an athletic and achedemic scholarship to Notre Dame College in Cleveland, Ohio. She’s such a hard worker! I decided to make another ornament from the college bookstore, so I got a NDC keychain and ornament and combined it with a message in gold on the back. DD#1…
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Hot color quilt tops
Yesterday’s commitments were postponed because it was only 3 degrees outside, so I turned on the little space heater in my studio, popped in a movie, and went to work. I had so much fun pulling out hot colors! What a way to warm up. This first quilt top is all the colors I hardly…
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2003 Christmas ornaments
This year brought more changes. DD#1 started college. She won a full achedemic scholarship to Miami University in Oxford, Ohio which is only about an hour from home. She lived on campus, so during one of our visits I went over to the bookstore and bought a Miami University Christmas ornament and key chain. I…
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Hot colors
Last night my quilt guild had its annual Christmas potluck and fabric gift exchange. This year, each person was supposed to get 1/3 yard of focus fabric and two 1/3 yard cuts of coordinating fabrics. It’s fun to participate in exchanges like this because so often someone else picks out some fabulous fabrics that you…
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2002 Christmas ornaments
Two more milestones this year. DD#2 got her driver’s license this year. Unlike her sister, she couldn’t wait to learn! By now, the car they had been driving the previous year had died, so we got her a used Saturn to drive. Her ornament also includes a copy of the key to the car and…
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Return of summer time colors
I really liked how the autumn-colored leaves quilt top turned out, so I decided to make another version of it using summer colors. I used an analogous color scheme again, but just used brighter, high intensity colors. Although the photo doesn’t have the best lighting, it’s interesting to see how to colors interact differently with…
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2001 Christmas ornaments
2001 brought some milestones for us. DD#1 got her driver’s license. She wasn’t really interested in learning to drive, but since DH & I both worked full-time, we needed someone to drive DD#2 to volleyball practice. DD#1 graciously learned for her sister’s sake. Naturally, I had to make an ornament with her license, copies of…
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2000 Christmas ornaments
By 2000, both girls were now in high school. DD#1 is my bookworm and she loved the challenges of school. It was only fitting to make some fully functional, tiny books, about 2″ high. On the spine I wrote her favorite subjects. Two of them were covered with fabric scraps from dresses I had made…
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1999 fancy dresses ornaments
From the time they were toddlers, my girls have loved to play dress up in fancy dresses. We loved to find old prom dresses at the thrift store or at garage sales for them to play in. One year my friend, who has two daughters about the same ages as mine, and I made big…